It’s easy to forget that after 38 years of uninterrupted public service — to the state, to what used to be the 22nd Congressional District here in New York, to the nation he so loves, and as a friend to the free world — Congressman Maurice Hinchey didn’t start out as a winner. His first indoctrination into the fine (and some may say, black) art of politics was administered in the form of defeat at the hands of then-incumbent state assemblyman H. Clark Bell.